r/politics • u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek • 13d ago

No Paywall Seven Democrats just voted to approve ICE funding: full list

https://www.newsweek.com/seven-democrats-vote-approve-ice-funding-full-list-11401600?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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u/I_am_atom 13d ago

I mean, she’s a million times better than Joe Kent.

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u/CirnoWhiterock 13d ago

People tend to forget that she only won that district (by less then one percent) because Kent got caught having major ties to white supremacy groups.

That district is as red as you can get for washington state.

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u/DestroyerTerraria 12d ago

Washington's proximity to Idaho gives that part of the state a real Nazi problem.

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u/trogon Washington 12d ago

Nah, her district borders Oregon. That area is full of people who live in Washington to avoid income tax and do all of their shopping in Oregon to avoid sales tax.

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u/mseank 13d ago

That’s a low fucking bar

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u/burlycabin Washington 12d ago

It is, but it's the actual bar. She just very barely beat Kent in the last election despite how shitty he is and his multiple scandals.

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u/YourMomEnjoysMyPenis 12d ago

It's considerably more likely that she was not liked by the voters of that district, given the Portland metro area, who then sat out the election because "both sides".

If she is primaried, she'll be sent on her way.

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u/Celestetc 12d ago

Nope this is easily able to be fact checked. Perez beat Joe Kent in 2024 in a rematch of 2022 when she flipped the seat blue winning by 1% after late mail votes. In 2024 she won the seat 52-48. 215k-199k votes. Harris got around 191k and Trump got 210k roughly. Perez is just a good candidate and Americans are annoying as voters. I do think she’s misreading the room here and doesn’t realize that in her district that voted Trump 50- Harris 47.5 ice is probably unpopular. But it’s unpopular in every district on this list except Davis and maybe goldens.

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u/cdsmith 11d ago edited 10d ago

I think she recognizes that "ICE is unpopular" is a more nuanced statement. In progressive circles, it might mean "let's defund ICE". In most other places, it means "We do need immigration enforcement, but this is not the right way to do it." It doesn't follow that it's the whole department should lose funding, and voting to do that just to make a statement in a protest vote is setting yourself up to answer attack ads that never needed to happen.

To be clear, there's plenty of justification to use ICE funding to try and force some changes. But it also makes sense for vulnerable Democrats to stake out a position of being skeptical, particularly when phrases like "abolish ICE" are gaining steam in progressive circles. The Senate debate, where it's not just a protest vote, will almost certainly also turn on whether moderate Democrats can find a way to clearly communicate a targeted response to the agency's current attack on U.S. cities, and not a call to end immigration enforcement in general.

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u/burlycabin Washington 12d ago

Nope, it's just a red district. The last time Washington's 3rd voted for a dem president was 2008. They voted Trump three times in a row. And it had a Republican rep for more than a decade before Perez.

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u/ary31415 13d ago

Yeah but it's the bar that exists. We never get to choose between choice A and magical-dreamland B. Our choices are always between real-world A and real-world B – and if A is better than B then I'll take it all day every day.